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Thursday, March 5, 2015

"Nine-Patch with an Attitude"

In my last post I told you that I have made March, Machine Quilting Month, and that I had four projects that I want done by the end of the month. I can now show you the first project that I have completed and can tick off the list.

I called it "Nine-Patches with an Attitude" I love nine-patches, what quilter doesn't. I have made a ton of them over the years. In January, my lovely little guild, the Maritime Modern Quilt Guild, had a member swap of 5" squares of dots and stripes. I sorted through the pile of 56 squares that I received and arranged them into colour families. Then I made nine-patch blocks with each one having a dark grey 5" square in the centre. Then I used the disappearing nine-patch method and sliced them up and then sewed them all back together into a pleasing arrangement. I used the orangey/pinkey and the bluey/greeney ones to make my centre (still have a few blocks left over for another project) and then added a light grey around that. I machine quilted with a straight-line jiggity jaggity stitch of my own making, with an orangey/pinkey Sulky variegated thread opposite the orangey/pinkey quadrant and then used a blue/yellow/green Sulky variegated thread opposite the bluey/greeney blocks. I switched up the direction of the quilting as well. What a beautiful texture it made. For the binding (that's a whole other post coming soon) I used Kona Coal and then when sewing it down to the front I used the same thread to correspond with the quilting. First time I ever did that. Love it and it was such fun for me to make.

On the back, I used an Ikea print that my Quilty Sister brought me from Qatar.

Love your D9P quilt! I made one of those for my niece for her off-to-college quilt and it turned out so cute. Now you've got me thinking about using up some of my children's prints and making some of these for our charity drive at guild!!!

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Hi! Welcome to my quilting blog. My name is Linda and I live in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I have three adult children and have been married to my amazing husband, Mike, for the past 40 years. My passion in life is my family and my quilting.